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Definition of Scurrilousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scurrilousness
Literary usage of Scurrilousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elizabethan Playhouse, and Other Studies by William John Lawrence (1912)
"Duffet, who, with equal assiduity and scurrilousness, kept burlesquing the Dorset
Gardens spectacles at Drury Lane, wrote (and printed in 1674) "an Epilogue ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"An ignoramus in Roman Catholic matters he has sufficiently shown himself to be,
to say nothing of his scurrilousness, but there is no reason to suppose him ..."
3. Anthracite Coal Communities: A Study of the Demography, the Social by Peter Roberts (1904)
"Reformers, who have tried to prevent dickering and jobbery, have been subjected
to such abuse and scurrilousness by foul-mouthed scoundrels as is only heard ..."
4. The Victorian Age of English Literature by Oliphant (Margaret), Francis Romano Oliphant (1892)
"His contributions to the new magazine were remarkable for their wit and power,
but disgusted many by the scurrilousness of the personal attacks which ..."
5. Memorials by Roundell Palmer Selborne (1898)
"In scurrilousness, especially against the Bishops, some of their publications so
far exceed anything which the Record ever wrote, in its worst days, ..."
6. Memorials by Roundell Palmer Selborne (1898)
"In scurrilousness, especially against the Bishops, some of their publications so
far exceed anything which the Record ever wrote, in its worst days, ..."
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